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This article considers whether natural monopoly conditions or AT'T's market power was responsible for the formation of a single, standardized network in the United States telephone industry. It shows that AT&T was able to move the industry towards a single system under its management through a strategy of competition and compromise with competitors. The article also examines the impact of AT's actions on state regulators, concluding that public officials, lacking necessary knowledge and authority to set policy, ended up supporting AT's position in the industry.

One could make a career of throwing darts at the work of Alfred Chandler. I don't mean just criticizing him. You could take the pages of Chandler's books, paste them up on a wall, and start throwing. Almost everywhere a point struck would be a little gem of business history to draw your interest.

Surveillance Capitalism in America explores the historical development of commercial surveillance long before computers and suggests that a ubiquitous but often unseen surveillance infrastructure created by business and the state has been central to American capitalism since the nation's founding.

This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the domination trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution

In contrast to prevailing models, it is argued that professional labor has benefited from its close integration into corporate & other hierarchies. Using historical case studies from law, engineering, & accounting, it is shown how this relationship developed over time & how actors used it to build their professions. In forging close ties to large-scale organizations, professionals were largely successful in avoiding proletarianization of their work & also in maintaining a necessary degree of autonomy from corporate control. 84 References. Adapted from the source document.

Mapping the shadowlands of capitalism / Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson -- Lifting the veil of money : what economic indicators hide / Eli Cook --Accounting for reproductive labor : feminist economists and the construction of social knowledge on rural women in the global South / Eileen Boris -- The loose cotton economy of the New Orleans waterfront in the late nineteenth century / Bruce E. Baker -- Jim Crow's cut : white supremacy and the destruction of black capital in the forests of the Deep South / Owen James Hyman -- In the shadow of incorporation : hidden economies of the Hispano borderlands, 1890-1930 / Bryan W. Turo -- Capitalism's back pages : "immoral" advertising and invisible markets in Paris's mass press, 1880-1940 / Hannah Frydman -- Capitalism's black heart in wartime France / Kenneth Mouré --The emergence of the offshore economy, 1914-1939 / James Hollis and Christopher McKenna -- Comrades in-between : transforming commercial practice in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1962 / Philip Scranton -- Hidden realms of private entrepreneurship : Soviet Jews and post-World War II Artels in the USSR / Anna Kushkova.

Machine generated contents note: List of plates; About the authors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the corporation in the public square; Part I. The Seeds of Corporate Responsibility: 1. Foundations of capitalism and the birth of the corporation, 1776-1880; 2. The turbulent rise of the corporation, 1880-1900; 3. The Progressive Era and a new business-government relationship, 1900-1918; 4. The corporation's case for social responsibility, 1918-1929; 5. The corporation and national crisis, 1929-1945; Part II. Corporate Responsibility Comes of Age: 6. Corporate legitimacy affirmed, 1945-1963; 7. A revolution of rising expectations, 1963-1973; 8. Managing corporate responsibility, 1973-1981; Part III. Taking Account of Corporate Responsibility: 9. Stakeholders and stockholders, 1981-1989; 10. Corporate responsibility institutionalizes and globalizes, 1989-2001; 11. A new social contract for the twenty-first century, 2001-2011; Conclusion: patterns and prospects; Chapter notes; References; Index